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2019-11-29 Britain
Breaking: London Bridge closed by British police amid reports of stabbing
Moved to Britain, because London is not in Europe.
[Sun UK] LONDON TERROR London Bridge shooting – Man shot by police after several injured in knife attack. Terrifying footage from the scene shows armed officers pointing their weapons at a man lying prone on the floor.

Shocked witnesses told The Sun Online the man on the bridge appeared to be wearing a suicide vest.

Witnesses have been evacuated from the scene, with others told to stay inside restaurants and stores.

Video footage shows armed police and members of the public surrounding and grappling with a man who is lying on the ground on the north side of the bridge.

The armed cops order the members of the public to step away from the man before he is shot by one of the firearms officers.

A lorry has been left jacknifed across the bridge, the scene of the 2017 terror attack which killed eight.

One woman said: “I was just walking along the bridge and I heard four or five shots from behind me.

“I just ran. I didn’t even look back. I’ve no idea of it was police or not. I was terrified.”

Journalist Lucy Jones was in Farmer J’s restaurant in London Bridge when armed cops stormed in.

She said: “We were eating lunch when a policeman screamed ‘get on the floor’.

"They locked all the doors and we had to rush to the back of the restaurant near the toilets.

"There were women crying. It was terrifying.

"We heard a gunshot and another officer shouted 'we need to get out' and we all ran away from London Bridge."
Updated headline as of 1:05 p.m ET:
London Bridge attack – ‘Islamic’ terrorist in fake suicide vest shot dead by cops after 12 injured

Terrifying footage from the scene shows armed officers shooting the knifeman twice after hero bystanders wrestled him to the ground.

The terror suspect can be seen lying on London Bridge after being chased by witnesses armed with sticks and a fire extinguisher before he was shot by police.

A local hero is seen holding the knife he wrestled from the suspect as police swoop.

Guy Lawrence, 48, said he saw a man running out of a building, believed to be Fishmonger's Hall, armed with two kitchen knives with 20cm blades.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan this afternoon paid tribute to the brave emergency services as well as the "breathtaking heroism of members of the public who literally ran towards danger, not knowing what confronted them."
A pack, not a herd.
Final update: Our miscreant is identified as Usman Khan, 28, from Staffordshire.
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-29 10:04|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ]  Top

#1 Sounds like Brexit Britain is shrugging off the Blair/Brown/Cameron herd mentality and acting like a pack.

We'll know it's entered the government when the RoPers mosque has been pulled down to refurb into a civilised building.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 10:22||   2019-11-29 10:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder how many MPs will be "Nothing to do with islam"ing?

If they do they miss my vote (and probably a lot of others too).
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 10:26||   2019-11-29 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Terrifying footage from the scene shows armed officers pointing their weapons at a man lying prone on the floor.

Hunh ?

"It was 'orrible ! They shot this stabber guy all over the place an' oohh..," [faints]
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-29 10:29||   2019-11-29 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 10:31||   2019-11-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I was right ! They're actually behaving like that. Oh Gawd ! Not twenty years ago, I'd have expected lads to 'run up and kick the fokking body once'.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-29 10:36||   2019-11-29 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Saves on 'room and board' at the local gaol.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-11-29 11:05||   2019-11-29 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 London (bridge) is falling down!
Posted by DarthVader 2019-11-29 11:19||   2019-11-29 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Stabby Islamic occurred here
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 11:22||   2019-11-29 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 London has fallen
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-29 11:24||   2019-11-29 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 "Declared a terrorist incident" Stabby suspect dead and get's no virgins.
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-29 11:25||   2019-11-29 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Just hoping the cops who shot him won't be Gallaghered.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-29 11:25||   2019-11-29 11:25|| Front Page Top

#12 If it happens again, don't carry the knife away, stick it through him. an eyeball is best.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 11:31||   2019-11-29 11:31|| Front Page Top

#13 ♫ Sharif ♪ he ♫ don't ♪ like it. F*ck ♪ the casbah, f*ck ♫ the casbah...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-29 11:34||   2019-11-29 11:34|| Front Page Top

#14 The heroes of London Bridge: Brave bystander wrestles blade off knife maniac after six stop him in his tracks and bundle him to the ground

I think "wait for the police to deal with it" is not the "Sod Off Swampy" types (who are the majority there) preferred course of action.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 11:48||   2019-11-29 11:48|| Front Page Top

#15 he was wearing a mock suicide vest, making the efforts by the British public to stop him all the more heroic.
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-29 11:51||   2019-11-29 11:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Brexit must be cancelled because of this rayciss act!
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-29 12:10||   2019-11-29 12:10|| Front Page Top

#17 They didn't shoot him -- they made the suicide vest safe.

(By spreading the idiot's brains in a (very) thin layer across London Bridge.)
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-29 12:19||   2019-11-29 12:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Well the white van is still there across the road. London bridge station is closed and trains are not stopping there , but trains are going through it from all other stations.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-29 13:01||   2019-11-29 13:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Maybe there's hope for Englanders yet.

Londoner Stevie Hurst rushed up to kick knife attacker in head during melee.

Wot I said... bloody good show eh ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-29 14:35||   2019-11-29 14:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Original video disabled by copyright owner but shooting can be viewed at Twitter link.

Looks like the shooting was justified! Note the careful close shooting.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-11-29 15:39||   2019-11-29 15:39|| Front Page Top

#21 Now if only those citizens had handguns.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-29 15:48||   2019-11-29 15:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Stab city.
Posted by gorb 2019-11-29 18:55||   2019-11-29 18:55|| Front Page Top

#23 Abu Mack.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-29 19:24||   2019-11-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#24 Let's see: Known wolf, convicted in 2012 plot to bomb London Stock Exchange and also of attempting to establish a terrorist training camp in the UK, and he's already back on the street killing. Pathetic
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-11-29 23:51||   2019-11-29 23:51|| Front Page Top

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